BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1920, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) CENSURE DEBATE. . SYDNEY, This Day.r-The Censure debate is proceeding. HIDES MARKET.

MELBOURNE, This Day.—Hides are firm and prices are on a par with last week's rates. THE ALL BLACKS. * Received this day at 10.40 a.m. SYDNEY, .This Day.—The New Zealand footballers sailed for home by the'Ulimaioa. RECORD BULLOCK. SYDNEY, This Day.—A Durban bullock brought £Bl at the Orange sales, smashing all records. The deadweight is estimated at 17001 b. OIL FUEL. • NEW, YORK, August 11.—It is understood that the Navy Department has contracted for ninety per cent, of the oil needed by the Pacific fleet. ■ QUARANTINED. MELBOURNE, This Day.—On arrival from New Zealand the Northumberland was quarantined. Eight persons are suffering from influenza. ... MINERS' BALLOT. '' LONDON, August 12.—The miners' meeting in London decided to ballot on a strike for their demands with a strong recommendation in favour of a strike. COAL SHORTAGE. •'' ', MELBOURNE, This Day.—Mr Hughes announced that 45,000 tons of coal are coming from Newcastle to Victoria on * Thursday to relieve the shortage. \ SAGHALIN. • -« TOKIO, August 11.—The American note regarding Sakhalin has caused the re-opening of the Nikolaievsk investigation. Hara succeeded in forestalling the opposition party by appointing a committee from his own supporters. .' V THE ROYAL TOUR. SYDNEY, This Day—The Prince's mail is expected by the Carkunda and will be biought by aeroplane from Adelaide to catch the Renown on August 19th. The Prince is concluding his country holiday and is returning to Sydney on Saturday. JOCKEY CLUB'S PROFITS. SYDNEY, This Day.—The annual re- ' port of the Australian Jockey Club discloses that the prizes amounted to

£IOO,OCO and the totalisator receipts were over a million. The club's profits were £35,000. '. '' VISIT TO THE ISLANDS. MELBOURNE, This Day.—lt is expected that the Federal Parliamentary Party, comprising four Ministerialists, four Labour, and two country members, will leave on August 24th on a visit to the Pacific Islands. NEWSPRINT SHORTAGE. . SYDNEY, This Day.—The Government has appointed a committee including newspaper managers with practical knowledge to test the bulk of a parcel of Australian timbers for paper making. ZIONIST MISSION. SYDNEY, This Day.—lsaac Cohen, representative of the Zionist Mission, is raising funds for the settlement of the Jews in Palestine. He is now tourinc the Comomnwealth. He leaves for New Zealand on August 20th. He has already raised over £20,000 in Australia

A STATESMAN'S MEMORY. < LONDON, August 11.—In the House of Ccmmohs, Mr Lloyd George moved a motion in favour of the erection at the House's expense of a monument within the precincts of Westminster Place to the memory of Mr Joseph Chamberlain, with an inscription expressing the House's high sense of his eminent services to the country and the Empire. The Premier paid a plowing tribute to Mr Chamberlain's gveit services. The resolutions were unanimously carried. MERCHANT ARRESTED ACCUSED OF INTRIGUE. /Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] Received this day at 8.5 a.m. PEKIN, August 11. Much indignation has been caused in Shanghai through the arrest, by the Japanese, of George Shaw, agent for Butterfield and Swires steamer. He is the leading British merchant at Aritung. Shaw entered Korea to meet his family,; who m ere returning from Japan, and was arrested on July 13th and kept in a dirty evil till he was forwarded to Seuol for trial. A police statement asserts that Shaw's house was the headquarters for Korean intrigue's, that he assisted the Korean revolutionaries to escape, and that his steamers were used to carry arms and bombs to Korea from Shanghai. BRE4D SUBSIDY REMOVED IN BRITAIN.

[Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received this day at 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 12. Mr. Chamberlain announced that the Government had decided, in the interests of national economy with a view to hastening the return to normal trade conditions, to end the bread subsidy

before the beginning of another financial year. At present the subsidy is about fivepence on a quartern loaf, and threepence thereof is to be .transferred from the taxpayer to the consumer next month. Whatever balance re maine'd, according to the price of wheab should be transferred by. the close of the financial year.